- From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:21:51 -0500
- CC: zig <www-zig@w3.org>
"LeVan,Ralph" wrote: > Since all the clients I talk to send me their terms in the general option, > and since I must somehow interpret the bytes in that field, I have to do a > conversion anyway. So, why shouldn't the UTF-8 negotiation apply? Because the character set negotiation definition explicity applies to InternationalString only. If you arbitrarily decide that a particular octetString type should be affected, well then what about for example the referenceId? Is that subject to utf-8 negotiation? "What a silly question", you say, "the reference id is binary". Well don't forget, the term can be binary too. How do you decide whether a given octet string is binary or character? --Ray
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